In rural Wyoming County, West Virginia, Ann Reed is the sheriff’s department’s only social worker. Funded through a temporary ...

For two hours every Thursday and Friday, Randall Brown gathers a handful of people in front of a whiteboard. They sit on a ...

As millions in opioid settlement funds reach West Virginia, counties are making high-stakes choices about how to spend it — ...

As the Justice Department slashes funding to programs across the U.S., Wilkes County's planned recovery court was halted ...

American horror has historically been unkind to Appalachia. While “hillbilly” narratives bring in the big bucks, the blurring line between fantasy and reality has done no favors for popular ...

On a late spring day in 2022, Rev. Brad Davis was riding along the twisting roads of McDowell County, West Virginia. Davis was soon to start his current job pastoring five United Methodist churches ...

Too often, however, the militant traditions of socialism in Appalachia have been treated as a quaint anachronism, peculiar to a bygone era before the New Deal. Nevertheless, the oppression and ...

Reporting highlights Locked up: West Virginia still sends kids with physical or emotional disabilities to group homes and treatment centers at a rate three times the national average, according to the ...

This summer, our Pittsburgh family took a long-awaited bucket list road trip through Appalachia. We had recently spent 18 months driving the Pan American highway, and while it was an epic journey, the ...

Haas’s hope for today is that her teeth will get pulled. She’s suffered all her life from grand mal seizures, and with each episode she bites her tongue. “They said one wrong, good bite and I could ...

Tucker County is home to the popular Blackwater Falls State Park and features a dozen rivers. They include the Blackwater River watershed, home to diverse microhabitats and recreational opportunities.